Wednesday, May 24, 2006

Black Pride

When I look in the mirror at my Black skinI see centuries of determination and pride
When I look at the color of my Black skinI think of all the pioneers that bled and died
When I wash my black skinI think of the struggles of the enslaved
When I look at my dark skinI think of the road for ME they paved
When I bleed from my Black SkinI think of Martin and Malcolm X
When I love a Black womanI know it will be the best and hottest sex
When I die a Black man..I know I will have lived a warriors life
When I get to heaven as a Black manI'll thank God for every bit of strife
Why....Because I was proud to be a Black man

The Panther

A friend of mine wrote this poem and I thought it was one of the most powerful poems I have read in a while.
I love everything about being a Black woman. And I am offended when I watch movies and television and see women like Vivica and Tyra transform themselves into something unrecognizable. Are we still proud of our ethnicity? Why are so many celebrities bleaching their skin, having nose jobs, and sewing fake hair into their heads? Black people are disappearing. If it's not from race-mixing, it's from doing everything in our power to look European. Admittedly, I relax my hair, but it's MY hair, I didn't buy it. I'm a fair skinned woman but I have very ethnic features and I wouldn't change anything about myself. I look at pictures and movies from the 70's and I long for the days when Black was really beautiful. But when you have Black celebrities distancing themselves from their ethnicity and HBCUs like Hampton University making policies that prohibit braids and dreads, I can't help but to feel that Black people are doomed. Hopefully, we as a people will wake up before it's too late.

I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my goals, my own; get used to me. ~ Muhammad Ali

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